Here’s the supplemental letter brief, filed today on behalf of Rose Mary Knick, as requested by the Supreme Court.
Two more — by the Township and by the SG — to be filed today as well. We shall post those as they become available.
Knick Reargument: Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019
They’re going back, to reargue the case with a full contingent of justices. In the January oral argument calendar published yesterday, the Supreme Court gave us the date and time:
Wednesday, January 16, 2019, at 10:00 a.m.
We will be there, and will bring you our thoughts.
ALI-CLE Eminent Domain And Land Valuation Litigation Palm Springs Brochure Is Out
Get ready. In this and upcoming posts, we’re going to be featuring the items on our agenda for the upcoming ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference, January 24-26, 2019, in sunny Palm Springs, California.
ALI-CLE has released the brochure, which those of you on the mailing list should have received —
Knick And Klingon Foreheads: Retconning Williamson County
Retroactive continuity — or “retconning” — is, according to that authoritative source Wikipedia, a “literary device in which established facts in a fictional work are adjusted, ignored, or contradicted by a subsequently published work which breaks continuity.”
For example, compare the real-world explanation for why the 1960’s Star Trek show’s Klingons didn’t have
More Knick Briefing, Reargument
As we guessed immediately after arguments, today in this order the Supreme Court has set the Knick v. Township of Scott case for supplemental briefing, and reargument.
Here’s the full text of the order:
This case is restored to the calendar for reargument. The parties and the Solicitor General are directed to file letter
New Amicus Brief In SCOTUS Hawaii Case: Takings Is About Denial Of *Use* Not Whether Property Has Value
Would you pay, say $10 for an undeveloped Maui beachfront parcel that is zoned for hotel and residential purposes, but currently is not developable because the County in the past wanted to condemn the land and turn it into a public park (but then ran out of money)?
In furtherance of its acquisition plan, the
Friday Takings Fun: More Knick Memes
From Reno, Nevada colleague Steve Silva, comes this contribution to our growing collection of Knick/Williamson County-related memes.
Congratulations if you get this without having to do research. If so, you are a True Takings Nerd (and a nerd generally).
For those of you who are not quite getting it, here is
2018 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference Report: Emerging Issues
Last week, the 15th Annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference saw the gathering of legal scholars, judges, lawyers, and law students at the William and Mary Law School to award the B-K Property Rights Prize to Cardozo lawprof Stewart Sterk, followed by a day-long conference focusing on Professor Sterk’s work and the latest developments in property
Law 608’s Infinite Playlist: Takings-Related And Road Trip Songs
For the six-hour-plus roundtrip from Williamsburg to DC for last week’s SCOTUS oral arguments in Knick v. Township of Scott, the only assignment our class had — the ticket for the van ride, so to speak — was that each student was required to make two contributions to our day’s playlist. Otherwise, we’d be
Oranges And Tangerines – The Difference Between Eminent Domain And Inverse Condemnation: Deconstructing The Knick Oral Arguments
Seeking A Cause of Action
It has been just under a century since the U.S. Supreme Court first recognized (in the modern era, that is) the regulatory takings doctrine. You might think that the intervening decades would be enough time to allow the Justices, collectively, to have figured out what a cause of action looks like.